Keshav Iyengar Email & Phone Number

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Awards: Purdue Innovates Back and Gold Grand Prize ($100,000), Purdue New Venture Challenge Grand Prize ($40,000) out of $800,000 pre-seed investment Patents: Methods and Systems for Power Grid Optimization for Charging Systems of Electric AircraftPapers: Quantitative Assessment of Grid Requirements for Electric Urban Air Mobility Operations- Improved high fidelity simulations of vertiport operations for site analysis and power grid optimization- Implemented large scale data analysis for site analysis of future vertiport locations- Developing full stack applications for consumer facing interfaces with Aerovy's technologyhttps://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q4/aerovy-an-advanced-air-mobility-software-provider-completes-800,000-pre-seed-funding-round.html

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Worked with the Data Exchange team to solve pain points in existing sync debugging- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement new page for support team- Proposed and implemented methods for Sync expansion into new integrations

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Joined National Institute of Aerospace and NASA Langley Research Center sponsored project to help assess Operations limits for passenger-carrying Urban Air Mobility missions- Generated millions of model daily trips to analyze viability of UAM under profit model- Optimized data generation pipeline in Python, saving team hundreds of hours- Optimized data accuracy with improvements to income and location sampling- Created detailed charts and summaries presented to the NASA Langley teamPapers:A Comparative Study of Operational Limits for Urban and Regional Passenger-Carrying Missions across Metropolitans, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3410

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Team Lead of Purdue EPICS DKC (Deaf Kids Code), involved in the LCE project (Live Captioning Environments)- Led team of 6 to set new captioning standards for teachers with Deaf Accessibility community members and leaders- Innovated webhook based system for self-paced learning by letting teachers stream captions to students individually- Interviewed deaf and hard of hearing students to best understand their educational needs- Communicated with Project Partners to create live caption environments and guidelines of best use- Matched quality of both $100/hour and real person transcription services for free, with no impact on other students- Developed Audio Description guidelines to improve classroom accessibility to the low vision and blind, as well as students with a wide range of learning challenges- Made DKC's first social media presence, and handled photography and posting

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

The Diplomacy Lab is a public-private partnership between select Universities and the US Department of State - https://www.state.gov/diplomacy-labJoined the Diplomacy Lab to Research international information gathering through Social Media- Directly worked with Operations Center to resolve pain-points in their system- Presented progress and findings to the department- Developed the team's data pulling via Twitter API- Helped develop user and event identification, essential to distinguish events from misinformation- Made data visualizations and help team create interactive front-end for Operations Center

Mason, Ohio

Part of the fundraising team for the Hero Club 5K- Set up a booth at the entrance of the Mason City Community Center- Worked with families to sign up for the 5K and make donations to the organization- Helped create and install signs and posters at Pine Hill Lakes Park

Mason, Ohio

Designed/Developed modernized and interactive website for The Hero Club- Used PayPal's donation system to create a smooth experience- Wrote front end JavaScript to create a custom contact system- Made SQL database via Google's Cloud Platform to store contact information- Used Google reCAPTCHA API in order to secure our site. The Hero Club has generated nearly $30,000 in the past two years in support of curing PPPD.This year's deployment can be found at: theheroclub.org

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Junior

Activities and Societies: Purdue Aerial Robotics, System of Systems Lab, EPICS Live Captioning Environments, Intramural Soccer

Education record

Activities and Societies: Speech and Debate Club, Tennis